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This is the fifth and last volume of the EXPO-Discourses of the World Religions (World Exposition EXPO 2000, Hannover, Germany). The series aims at a deeper understanding of the similarities and differences between Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in their theological and philosophical propositions. It sees in philosophy a bridge between the religions and a means to overcome religious hostility and fundamentalism and to further the dialogue of the religions.
All religions make statements about God or the Absolute and about "the beginning": about the beginning of the world and the beginning and nature of the human person. Propositions about God, the human person, and the world, statements about God's eternity or process of becoming, about the status and nature of the human person as the "image of God", and about the beginning of the world are woven into "religious speculations about the beginning". The theology, anthropology, and cosmology of the world religions determine the image of the human person and the image of the world in the world cultures shaped by the different religions. They stand in a tense relationship with the anthropologies and cosmologies of modern science, which in turn challenge the religions to deepen their image of the human person. With this volume leading thinkers of Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam provide the reader with a first-hand source for understanding the five world religions and their teaching about God, the human person, and the origin of the world.
Ethics, Politics and Justice in Dante presents new research by international scholars on the themes of ethics, politics and justice in the works of Dante Alighieri, including chapters on Dante’s modern ‘afterlife’. Together the chapters explore how Dante’s writings engage with the contemporary culture of medieval Florence and Italy, and how and why his political and moral thought still speaks compellingly to modern readers. The collection’s contributors range across different disciplines and scholarly traditions – history, philology, classical reception, philosophy, theology – to scrutinise Dante’s Divine Comedy and his other works in Italian and Latin, offering a multi-facet...
Ten leading scholars team up to produce the first book-length treatment of the philosophical thought of James of Viterbo, one of the key thinkers at Paris in the late thirteenth century. The book examines all major areas of James’s philosophical thought, exploring his connections with other important masters of the time and highlighting his originality in the context of late medieval philosophy. Contributors are: Antoine Côté, Stephen D. Dumont, R. W. Dyson, Mark D. Gossiaux, Mark Henninger, Thomas Osborne Jr., Martin Pickavé, Eric L. Saak, Jean-Luc Solère, and Gianpiero Tavolaro.
This open access book explores commentaries on an influential text of pre-Copernican astronomy in Europe. It features essays that take a close look at key intellectuals and how they engaged with the main ideas of this qualitative introduction to geocentric cosmology. Johannes de Sacrobosco compiled his Tractatus de sphaera during the thirteenth century in the frame of his teaching activities at the then recently founded University of Paris. It soon became a mandatory text all over Europe. As a result, a tradition of commentaries to the text was soon established and flourished until the second half of the 17th century. Here, readers will find an informative overview of these commentaries comp...
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Diese frühen und umfänglichsten Untersuchungen des Thomas von Aquin werden mit dem Begriff der Wahrheit eröffnet, der diesen Erörterungen den Titel gegeben hat. Da dieser Auftakt zugleich der locus classicus der Korrespondenztheorie ist, gehört der Grundgedanke wohl zu den am meisten berücksichtigten der mittelalterlichen Philosophie. Aber nicht diese Zuordnung, sondern der Begriff und die Begründung der Korrespondenz machen das eigentlich philosophisch Interessante des Textes aus. Zugleich aber hat es Thomas mit einer Fülle von überkommenen Bestimmungen von Wahrheit zu tun, denen er jetzt ihren systematischen Ort zuzuweisen versucht, wodurch sie ein Recht, wenn auch nur ein relativ...
Wissenschaft hat sich in der Moderne von der Philosophie und insofern auch von Weisheit losgelöst. "Weisheit und Wissenschaft" zielt auf ihre Versöhnung und unter diesem Titel sind Gespräche von Forscherinnen und Forschern aus der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft mit Philosophinnen und Philosophen versammelt. So macht uns etwa der Klimawandel im Anthropozän klar, dass Wissen ohne Weisheit kein gutes Leben auf unserem Planeten garantieren kann. Im zweiten Teil des Buches beleuchten Vorträge aus verschiedenen Perspektiven weitere Facetten der Weisheit. So gewinnt dieser einst so zentrale Begriff wieder Respekt und Raum.